I would vote for housing estates rather than trunk roads. The current regime means camers are predestined to land on trunk routes.

bad policy gets bad results

_________________Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

Agreed with T2006, this is impossible to answer. If you're going to deploy a speed camera, it should be clearly visible and located just ahead of a known hazard where there is strong evidence to suggest that slowing traffic to below the speed limit will reduce collisions. This could be on either a 30mph urban road or an NSL rural road, it all depends...

_________________“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” - H. L. Mencken

Pretty much the same as other posters, cameras should be where there is a significant risk that can be reduced by reducing speed.

_________________Gordon Brown saying I got the country into it's current economic mess so I'll get us out of it is the same as Bomber Harris nipping over to Dresden and offering to repair a few windows.

True, an oddball, would prefer to have better signage, VAS etc to give good warning before cameras, but if they are to be used then need to be highly visable not this crap about being hi viz underneath an overgrown tree.

_________________Gordon Brown saying I got the country into it's current economic mess so I'll get us out of it is the same as Bomber Harris nipping over to Dresden and offering to repair a few windows.

but lets say we increase the 30mph to 40 mph limit in residential areas will that satisfy everyone or should we go to 50mph / 60 mph (to the mods if ou want to move this to a new post feel free)

I certainly don't want the 30mph limit increased in residential or heavily built up areas. What I do disagree with however, is many local councils interpretaion of what constitues a 'built up area'. Local councils have very successfully destroyed credibility the important 30mph speed limit had.

Unfortunately the majority of enforcement that occurs in my local area tends to be on these 'new 30mph in force' roads that used to be NSL until a few years ago. Why don't the scp's enforce the speed limit where exceeding the limit is dangerous and not just a technical offence? Revenue?

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